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Cold Blooded vetrabrates Flashcards

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1
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Animals with a spine

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Vertebrates

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Animals that use body heat to maintain temperature

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Endotherms

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An organism that needs other sources of heat.

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Ectotherms

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A faint line that marks sense organs and detects vibration in the water

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Lateral Line

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An organ that helps animals breath underwater.

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Gills

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Jawless fish like a Lamprey and Hagfish

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Jawless Fishes

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Fish without cartilage these contain Rays, Sharks, and SKATES

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Cartilaginous Fishes

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Boney fish and these fish include Catfish, tuna, and lungfish

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Bony Fishes

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A gas filled sack that controls buoyancy

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Swim Bladder

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An animal that can live in water that has legs and lungs.

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Amphibians

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An organ that helps breath

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Lungs

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The larva of a frog or toad

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Tadpole

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A process of rapid change that turns a larva into an adult

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Metamorphosis

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A group of limbless, serpentine, amphibians that mostly live underground.

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Caecilians

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Amphibians that are lizard-like in appearance and have a tail in both larva and adult

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Salamanders

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An amphibian that goes through the metamorphic cycle of a tadpole to frog.

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Frogs

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They are like frogs but have worts and dry skin

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Toads

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They are like amphibians but live their whole life on land

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Reptiles

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A type of egg that is surrounded by a membrane

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Amniotic Eggs

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A reptile with a shell on its back and lives mostly in water

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Turtles

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A reptile with a shell on its back and lives mostly on land

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Tortoises

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A meat-eating reptile with a narrow head and pointed snout.

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Crocodiles

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meat-eating reptile with a broad head with a rounded snout.

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Alligators

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A reptile that is round and long

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Snakes

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A reptile that mostly eats small bugs

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Lizards

26
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Only a few live on islands off the coast of new zealand

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Tuataras

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